Two ITBP officers have been awarded Tenzing Norgay national adventure Award by President Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of national sports day.
Both the officers of the border guarding force, DIG Prem Singh and Assistant Commandant Hira Ram, are career mountaineers and had undertaken rescue operations in Uttarakhand recently, including conducting salvage operations to retrieve bodies of those personnel who died in a helicopter crash in the Garhwal Himalayas on June 25.
The officers, who got the awards at a function held here recently, are serving in the hilly formations of the force deployed to guard the Sino-Indian frontier and have undertaken a series of expeditions on Indian peaks.
Norgay was one of the first two individuals along with Edmund Hillary who summited world's tallest peak Mount Everest in 1953.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) guards 3,488 km of this frontier.
